3 Responses to Visit Widows, get to know people who are really suffering physically.

What? We’re going to die? I thought that the health insurance companies had all that covered!

The times that I, as a deacon, have visited our church’s members in the hospital or nursing homes have been especially meaningful. I recently joined the chaplaincy program at our local hospital to further this ‘front line’ ministry, and it has become abundantly clear that ministering the gospel to those who are on the edge of death is drastically different from ministering the gospel to those who don’t consider death an option.
Perhaps this is why the gospel appears to us sometimes as ineffective: we as preachers don’t encounter those who are truly facing death, and for those who are not (that we know), we do not proclaim the reality of spiritual death without Christ.